Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Taste book App

This is a fantastic App I've just downloaded onto my iphone... if like me you get to the supermarket car park and don't want to cook the same old safe, back up recipes but have forgotten to plan ahead this is an excellent App. You can search what type of dish you are looking for ie: dessert, main etc, you can also search in terms of main ingredient ie: chicken, vegetables...


You can then select a recipe from thousands- it will show you pictures plus an ingredient list which if you click on will go to a shopping list. You then scroll down for the instructions. It's brilliant.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Bibury Court Hotel- Jazz Wednesday


Having had what seemed like hundreds of children staying over the Christmas break with a constant flow of buying, preparing, eating and clearing up food- Dean and I managed to sneak in a quick lunch at the Bibury court Hotel. Now then I'm not normally a jazz fan but Alfie put jazz FM on the other day and I quite liked it (getting old) So we booked lunch to coincide with the lunchtime jazz on a Wednesday. It was really good!  


We had a delicious lunch then sat in the oak panelled lounge next to the log fire with a Cointreau. The 3 young musicians were great. The main violinist who was exceptional had won the Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2010 - Ben Holder.


Would highly recommend.